The City in Slang

The City in Slang

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Irving Lewis Allen provides a history of the rise of New York as a metropolis and the accompanying slang that surrounded it. This book is both a lexicon of slang and a history of recent casual language.

Author: Irving Lewis Allen
Format: Hardback, 321 pages
Published: 1993, Oxford University Press Inc, United States
Genre: Linguistics

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SKU: 9780195075915-SECONDHAND
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Irving Lewis Allen provides a history of the rise of New York as a metropolis and the accompanying slang that surrounded it. This book is both a lexicon of slang and a history of recent casual language.